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| My tattoos show the emotional pain I feel on the inside |
My face tattoos ain't scary
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| Post brand baloney is hard to knock if rappers/rockstars keep getting attention like Malone. |
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| The Dead in the Realm of Hungry Ghosts call me "premature." What was my rush to rot? |
Once you feel the stab of the needle as you get inked, you either wince and regret it or feel the rush of endorphins like you're being original while jumping on the bandwagon of the Basic, so basic. But the Straights just don't understand: It's cool, Man, so cool. Right? Isn't it? The guys at the bar think so. Other tatted folks think so. It's an arms race for blank space until nothing is left but the face.
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| Travis Barker-Kardashian is king of the dip... |
SUTRA: Sallatha Sutta: The Dart
"An untaught ordinary worldling, O meditators, experiences pleasant feelings, experiences painful feelings, and experiences neutral feelings.
"A well-taught noble [enlightened] disciple likewise experiences pleasant, painful, and neutral feelings. What is the difference, the distinction, the diversity that exists herein [within this Doctrine/Dharma] between a well-taught noble disciple and an untaught worldling?
"When an untaught worldling is touched by a painful (bodily) feeling, that person worries and grieves, laments, beats his/her breast, weeps, and is distraught. One thus experiences two kinds of feelings, a bodily and a mental feeling.
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| I ain't got no regrets. But, and this is a big butt, I do have one ragret. But so what? I look cool. |
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| I tatted myself tatting myself to show my pain. |
"In just this way, an untaught worldling when touched by a painful (bodily) feeling, worries and grieves, laments and beats her/his breast, weeps and is distraught. So one experiences two kinds of [unpleasant] feeling, a bodily and a mental feeling.
"Having been touched by that painful feeling, one resists (and resents) it. Then in one who so resists (and resents) that painful feeling, an underlying tendency of resistance (dosa, aversion) against that painful feeling comes to underlie (one's mind/heart).
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| Jelly Roll: I look hella good, and everybody likes it. I've felt alotta pain in life, y'know? |
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| What do I need to do to get noticed around here? |
"And why does one do so? An untaught worldling, O meditators, does not know of any OTHER escape from painful feelings except the [endless pursuit of happiness through the disappointing] enjoyment of sensual happiness.
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| What is a "fetter"? This New Yorker shows this bare buttocks American gent (BDSM/wiki). |
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| Asians, who love to save face, march for bondage and BDSM, Taiwan Pride 2005 (wiki) |
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"Then in one who enjoys sensual happiness, an underlying tendency to lust [lobha, greediness, grasping, clinginess] for pleasant feelings comes to underlie (one's mind/heart). One does not know, according to how it actually is, the
- arising and ending of these feelings,
- nor the gratification, the
- danger, nor the
- escape connected with these feelings.
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| Jelly Roll's next tattoo is going to be so meta. |
"When one experiences a pleasant feeling, a painful feeling, or a neutral feeling, one feels it as one fettered [put in bondage/BDSM] by it.
"Such a one, O meditators, is called an untaught worldling who is fettered by rebirth, by old age, by death, by sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief, and despair.
"One is fettered by suffering (dukkha, disappointment), I declare.
The difference
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| I get it! All that arises impersonally passes away. |
"One experiences one kind of feeling, a bodily one, but not a mental feeling.
"It is as if a person were pierced by a dart but were not hit by a second dart following after the first one.
"So this person experiences feelings caused only by a single dart. In just this way, a well-taught noble disciple when touched by a painful feeling will neither worry nor grieve, will not lament nor beat one's breast, not weep nor be distraught. One experiences a single feeling, a bodily one.
"Having been touched by that painful feeling, one does not resist (nor resent) it. Hence, in such a person no underlying tendency of resistance (dosa) against that painful feeling comes to underlie (one's mind/heart).
The result
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| Then there was no more pain at all. |
"As a well-taught noble disciple, one knows of an ESCAPE from painful feelings other than by [the futile and disappointing distraction and diversion of] enjoying sensual happiness.
"Then in one who does not seek to enjoy sensual happiness, no underlying tendency to lust (lobha) for pleasant feelings comes to underlie (one's mind/heart).
"One knows, according to how it actually is,
- the arising and ending of those feelings, and
- the gratification,
- the danger, and
- the escape connected with these feelings.
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| Ha, ya laugh at me, but ya notice, and I gets $$$ |
"When one experiences a pleasant feeling, a painful feeling, or a neutral feeling, one feels it as one who is not fettered by it.
"Such a person, O meditators, is called a well-taught noble disciple who is [no longer] fettered by rebirth, by old age, by death, by sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief, or despair. One is not fettered to suffering, I declare.
"This, O meditators, is the difference, the distinction, the diversity that exists between a well-taught noble disciple and an untaught ordinary worldling."
How shall we pursue happiness? (Project X)
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| Proud to be an American with right to watch BH |
We can have sex, have a spouse, even have kids, or stay single and chase wine, women, and song. There's a very funny Benny Hill quip that's hard to forget.
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| The Benny Hill Show is filth, funny but filth |
And the guy boozing it up quips, "Yeah, he couldn't get any, so he shot himself." Everyone laughs. Why? We imagine we would kill ourselves from all the pain, misery, and tedious drudgery of human life [at least in the West, where we have so much material surplus compared to everyone else on the planet] IF we couldn't enjoy our Hedonism and sensual pursuits, which we think make it all worthwhile or at least sufferable. Alcohol alone makes the medicine go down, and does anyone but the alcoholic realize how much harm is being done in the tradeoff? We can endure as long as we imagine there's more coming down the line, here or hereafter, by winning the lottery or getting into heaven. Maybe I should get a face tattoo.
- VICE, Aug. 12, 2018; I. Rony, Ashley Wells, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
- SUTRA: Ven. Nyanaponika Thera (trans), "The Dart" (SN 36.6, PTS: S iv 207, CDB ii 1263) edited by Dhr. Seven, Wisdom Quarterly
